The Stick and the Stack may be stuck. NASA's
Project Constellation is the effort to rebuild the manned spacecraft program after nearly thirty years of flying the Shuttle. While the mighty
Ares V, the big brother of the pair, seems to be working out on paper, the stick,
Ares 1 is running into
real trouble, as even with a longer first stage booster, it may not be able to loft the new
Orion Crew Vehicle. Now, a group of NASA engineers, with one private person acting as the public face, say that there's a simpler, more
DIRECT way.
posted by eriko
on Dec 19, 2006 -
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